Recipe Friday
Jan. 24th, 2014 10:04 pmTonight's Monster of the Week X-Files rewatch is Teliko, aka the one with the melanin vampire. It is dire.
I bought some ginger cordial to mix with vodka tonight. Genius. That's not a recipe, as such. More like life advice.
Something I cooked recently:
( Chargrilled zucchini (and some meat, in case that's something you don't want to look at) )
We brushed it with olive oil and grilled it until it was soft in the middle. It was very tasty!
Panini bread
Honestly, I didn't see much difference in this to my regular pizza recipe, despite it being a long and complex recipe involving a starter sponge and a whole lot of mess. I was anticipating something with a more open texture, like a ciabatta. I wouldn't bother with all the mess of the very sticky dough again, for what I got out of it. It tasted okay, though. But my pizza recipe would have worked just as well.
Mergatrude's Super Easy Butter Cake
[Disclaimer: the recipe is good. The baker suffers under a curse.]
I followed the recipe faithfully, and it all looked good when I put it in the oven. After the alloted twenty five minutes, it felt suspiciously liquid, so I left it for another ten. By then, it had cooked on the outside, and smelled amazing, but still felt a bit... sloshy. I used a skewer, which came out clean (OH TREACHEROUS SKEWER!!), and it was getting very brown on top, so I took it out. I let it cool in the pan, then I turned it out, and like the Titanic, it broke in half. Unlike the Titanic, it oozed raw cake batter. Oh, the humanity. It was a terrible caketastrophe. No, actually, the bits that cooked were really freaking tasty. But my shame and disappointment left a bitter aftertaste.
I think that either my oven is misbehaving (in which case, I've got a thermometer to check what the actual temperature is) OR I had it on the wrong temperature. The markings on the dial are getting smaller and smaller as time goes by. (Solution: get![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lilacsigil to check the setting, because according to the optometrist, she has the eyes of a ten year old.)
Something I have solid plans to cook soon:
The before mentioned butter cake. I WILL NEVER SURRENDER. ALSO THE COOKED BITS TASTED GOOD.
Strawberry Cream Cheese Ice-Cream, only with mangoes. Because I walked into the greengrocer this week, and the mangoes smelled amazing. I think it should work well? All of the ingredients taste good on their own, and that's usually a good sign.
Something I'm idly thinking about cooking in the future:
The zucchinis are coming. I think we're going to get four or five this week. Big ones. Hence:
Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Zucchini Bread, which is more like a spice bread than a bread bread. It makes a good teacake.
We're going out to dinner on Sunday night with my brother and sister in law, and our two nephews. I am trying to be less socially anxious about things. I wish I knew how to go about being less socially anxious about things.
I bought some ginger cordial to mix with vodka tonight. Genius. That's not a recipe, as such. More like life advice.
Something I cooked recently:
( Chargrilled zucchini (and some meat, in case that's something you don't want to look at) )
We brushed it with olive oil and grilled it until it was soft in the middle. It was very tasty!
Panini bread
Honestly, I didn't see much difference in this to my regular pizza recipe, despite it being a long and complex recipe involving a starter sponge and a whole lot of mess. I was anticipating something with a more open texture, like a ciabatta. I wouldn't bother with all the mess of the very sticky dough again, for what I got out of it. It tasted okay, though. But my pizza recipe would have worked just as well.
Mergatrude's Super Easy Butter Cake
[Disclaimer: the recipe is good. The baker suffers under a curse.]
I followed the recipe faithfully, and it all looked good when I put it in the oven. After the alloted twenty five minutes, it felt suspiciously liquid, so I left it for another ten. By then, it had cooked on the outside, and smelled amazing, but still felt a bit... sloshy. I used a skewer, which came out clean (OH TREACHEROUS SKEWER!!), and it was getting very brown on top, so I took it out. I let it cool in the pan, then I turned it out, and like the Titanic, it broke in half. Unlike the Titanic, it oozed raw cake batter. Oh, the humanity. It was a terrible caketastrophe. No, actually, the bits that cooked were really freaking tasty. But my shame and disappointment left a bitter aftertaste.
I think that either my oven is misbehaving (in which case, I've got a thermometer to check what the actual temperature is) OR I had it on the wrong temperature. The markings on the dial are getting smaller and smaller as time goes by. (Solution: get
lilacsigil to check the setting, because according to the optometrist, she has the eyes of a ten year old.) Something I have solid plans to cook soon:
The before mentioned butter cake. I WILL NEVER SURRENDER. ALSO THE COOKED BITS TASTED GOOD.
Strawberry Cream Cheese Ice-Cream, only with mangoes. Because I walked into the greengrocer this week, and the mangoes smelled amazing. I think it should work well? All of the ingredients taste good on their own, and that's usually a good sign.
Something I'm idly thinking about cooking in the future:
The zucchinis are coming. I think we're going to get four or five this week. Big ones. Hence:
Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Zucchini Bread, which is more like a spice bread than a bread bread. It makes a good teacake.
We're going out to dinner on Sunday night with my brother and sister in law, and our two nephews. I am trying to be less socially anxious about things. I wish I knew how to go about being less socially anxious about things.
